Wspólnota jutra. O „polityce dojmującej bliskości”
Community of Tomorrow: On the “Policy of Dominating Closeness”

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to answer the question regarding the possible establishment of the future community – the community of people who live “next to one another” instead of “against one another”. Seeking the opportunities to establish “a different mode of human integration”, the author, quoting the phrase from Shakespeare’s The Tempest (“flesh and blood”, Act V, scene 4), suggests the possibility of basing the future community on the experience of closeness. This sense of closeness arises from the experience of corporeal fragility which forces us to perceive the other person not as an enemy, but as a friend (C. Schmitt), as someone made of “flesh and blood”. The analyses of prose by Jerzy Pilch and Jacek Dehnel show that this kind of closeness is most fully revealed in the experience of illness.

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